Taxila gained importance and prosperity because of its
strategic position on the main trade route, when Cyrus the
great extended this empire around 560 B.C.Taxila came under
persion control. In 326 B.C Alexander from Macedonia come to
Takshasila, received a lavish welcome, and stayed to rest and
replenish supplie for his army.With in a decade of death,
Taxila was under the Mauryans Dynasty and Ashoka made it a
great cantre of Buddhism.
Buddhisem was extended from Gandhara to China,Japan and Korea.
After the decline of Mauryans dynasty, Taxila remained under
the Bactrian Greeks, Sakas, parthian, Kushans and Sassanian
respectively for more then seven hundred years.
strategic position on the main trade route, when Cyrus the
great extended this empire around 560 B.C.Taxila came under
persion control. In 326 B.C Alexander from Macedonia come to
Takshasila, received a lavish welcome, and stayed to rest and
replenish supplie for his army.With in a decade of death,
Taxila was under the Mauryans Dynasty and Ashoka made it a
great cantre of Buddhism.
Buddhisem was extended from Gandhara to China,Japan and Korea.
After the decline of Mauryans dynasty, Taxila remained under
the Bactrian Greeks, Sakas, parthian, Kushans and Sassanian
respectively for more then seven hundred years.
